MICR Code: 518002543

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0000784
MICR Code: 518002543
Address: Dist Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh 518543
City: Kurnool
District: Allagadda
State: Andhra Pradesh

MICR is acronym of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. Basically it is a character-recognition technology used by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

Generally MICR code is nine character long. First three charaters represent city, next three charaters represents bank name and last three charaters represents bank branch.

Let's decode MICR code 518002543.

  • In this case first three codes 518 is city code and it represents city Kurnool.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 543 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address Dist Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh 518543.

The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your

  1. Bank account statement
  2. Cheques

Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.